Monday, March 5, 2007

Weekly spending:

Dani isn't competing this month because she just moved to her first house (Woo-Hoo! Go Dani!) and there are LOTS of expensive things she has to buy, so it isn't a fair competition this month. However, I want to keep logging my spending so I don't get off track (and hopefully she will attempt to out-frugal me again next month - right Dani?) so I'm going to challenge myself (and Matt) to spend less than $250 for the entire month of March. Our weekly average throughout this entire challenge so far has been $115.05, so we'll have to cut our spending in half to meet the goal. It will be tough but we can do it! So, starting this next week I will be ultrafrugal and log how much we've used of the $250 each week.

Monday: $0

Tuesday: Superhero postage stamps - $7.80, Target (2 shampoos, 2 cereals, gum for Matt, nail polish, and lingerie laundry bag) - $11.33 (Not bad considering I used to spend $12 on just shampoo!) I really wanted nail polish too. I only packed a sexy, brooding, and mysterious burgundy, which is great for winter, but now that it's spring I don't want my toes to be brooding and mysterious anymore. ;-)

2 comments:

Ann
said...

man, you and Matt are good. I don't even want to think about our 'daily' spendings, if ya know what I mean!! I sent Justin to Wal-mart today for some baby tylenol, and he comes back with all this junk food and a electric keyboard for our daughter, Faith who is only 10 mo.! Talk about a spender!! Geez...:-)

I swear those stores are set up that way! I used to never be able to walk out of Target without spending AT LEAST $30, even if I only went in for toothpaste. When we don't watch it Matt and I are horrible spenders! If I had been logging my spending before I decided to cut back I would've been much too embarrassed to post it for all to see, haha! We've been trying REALLY hard to control our spending and it's paying off - we've paid off a huge amount of credit card debt in the last few months!

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My husband and I are taking root! We just bought our first home, started our general contracting business, and are loving the challenges!
I’m a listener and a watcher, always looking for answers, and I talk about my observations here. It’s becoming more and more apparent that our society is so confused. We live in a culture of excess (in food, escapism, spending, clutter…), so many of my posts focus around my own goals of breaking my consumerist cycle and living a simple, balanced, and attentive life.